Bio
My work engages with issues around cultural identity and notions of the body beauty in a patriarchal society, and often draws from my own culturally divided background between Switzerland and Ecuador.
Originally from Ecuador, I have been based in Switzerland since 2001, where I studied Visual Arts at the F+F School of Art and Design in Zurich and my Master in Contemporary Art Practices in Performance Arts at the Arts University of Bern -Switzerland. Through selfies, videos, paintings, interviews, performance, sculpure, photography, installation and objects, I explore the often paradoxical perceptions of my own body as a (hyper-sexualized) woman, foreigner and migrant in a patriarchal society.
My master thesis (Idolon) was a three years long research about my relation to social media (selfies), the relation of the other on the selfie, from the digital to the real, what is real?
EDUCATION
2015 – 2018/ MA Contemporary Arts Practice, Bern University of the Arts, Schwabstrasse 10, 3018 Bern
2014/ Internship with the artist Franticek Klossner in Bern.
2012-2015/ Degree Program Fine Arts (HF) at the F + F School of Art and Media Design Zurich, Flurstrasse 89, 8047 Zürich
2011-2012/ Designing Propädeutikum Muristalden, Campus Muristalden, Muristrasse 8, 3000 Bern
2003-2005/ Apprenticeship as a beautician, cosmetics school Erni, Eiger-platz 5, 3011 Bern
1995-1997/ High School in Chicago, USA.
1986-1994/ Primary and Secondary school in Quito, Ecuador
ARTIST RECIDENCY
10 – 11. 2018/ Sub rosa Space platform for performance in central Athens, Greece
PERFORMANCES
01.2020/ Connected Spaces, Kino Corso Bern – Switzerland
11.2019/ Festival Les creatives, Party Makita, Geneve – Switzerland
09.2019/ La Nef Contemporary Art, Le Noirmont – Switzerland
11.2018/ Sub rosa space, Athens- Greece
11.2018/ Space Circuits and Currents, Athens greece
10.2018/ Fossar de les Moreres, Barcelona, Spain
06.2018/ Art Centre Pasquart, museums for contemporary art, Seevorstadt 71, 2502 Biel – Switzerland
04.2018/ Act bern
04.2018/ Online Performance Festival
12.2017/ Bauhaus, Dessau Germany
10.2017/ Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival 2017
09.2017/ Documenta 14, Parthenon of books, Kassel-Germany
07.2017/ Galerie Mayhaus, Erlach, Switzerland
06.2017/ BernArtdiner ,PROGR_Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Waisenhausplatz 30, 3011 Bern
05.2017/ Online Performance Art Festival, Venice Italy
05.2017/ La Biennale di Venezia, participation in the performance of Jelili Atiku at the Arsenale. Venice
04.2017/Excentricites, Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon, Besançon – France
06.2017/ Videoex: Performance Méx 2: La Pocha Nostra, Festivalzentrum: Kunstraum Walcheturm. Zürich
12.2016/ Online Performance Art Festival, Bern-Switzerland
12.2016/ Chocolate kiss, Neo Dada, Bone festival, Bern
12.2016/ Stad galerie, bern
10. 2016/ Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, Bern
09.2016/ MANIFESTA 11, Die Europäische Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Cabararet Voltaire, Zürich
04.2016/ French Tricolour , Trocadero, France
12.2015/ STUDIO ZEVEN. Willem3, Oranjestraat 4, 4381 BB Vlissingen, Netherlands
12.2015/ Galleriehausrot, Schulhausgässe 7, Köniz- Switzerland
12.2015/ Masturbutopia at the Porny days, Langstrassen Kultur in Zurich
06. 2015/ Festival of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Athens – Greece
05.2015/ Festival: ALL über ALL München, Germany
04.2015/ 1. Münchner Science Fiction
04. 2015/ ACT Performance – Basel
03. 2015/ ACT Performance – Bern
06. 2014/ The Long Night of the Museums, Friedhof Forum, Zürich
09.2014/ Uamo Fetsival, Einstein Kulturzenter, München, Germany Kunstallmend,
09.2014/ Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon, Zürich
10. 2014/ ZHB Perron 8 Hauptbahnhof, Zürich
10.2014/ Bernale Bern – 72 hours Performnace, Dampfz-entale, Bern.
2014/ Dock 18- Raum für Medienkulturen der Welt,Rote Fabrik -Zürich
2014/Die kleine Documenta Bern
2014/ ACT Geneve, Théâtre de l‘Usine 4, place des volontaires, Geneva ACT Bern, Dampfzentrale, Bern
2014/ ACT Zürich, Kunsthof, Dittinghaus und Zeichensaal, Zurich Espace Kugler Art Contemporain, 19 avenue dela Jonction -Geneve
2013/ ACT Zurich, Media Performance at theLindenhof-Keller -Zürich
2013/ ACT Luzern, Zollhaus – Luzern
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
06 – 09. 2019/ La Nef, contemporary art , Le Noirmont – Switzerland
10 – 12. 2018/ Black panters, Bern
06. 2018/ Art Centre Pasquart, museums for contemporary art, Seevorstadt 71, 2502 Biel – Switzerland
05 – 07. 2018/ Melange Fusion Kollektiv, Bern
06 – 09. 2017/ BernARTiner, Bern
06 – 08 2016/ Ecuador Earthquake project, Zürich
05 – 07. 2015/ Visual Arts – Diplom Exhibition, F + F School for Art and De-sign, Zürich
09.2014/ The Long Night of the Museums, Zürich
06.2014 /Die kleine Documenta Bern
2013/ Espace Kugler Art Contemporain, Geneva
2013/ AKI, Zürich
2013/ Wasserkirche, Zürich
2012/ Thalwiler Kulturlabor, Thalwil
2012/ Campus Muristalden, Bern
Since 2018,
I have been working on a project about woman and love in a patriarchal society. Why and how woman have the necessity of taking care and giving love, specially to street cats in Greece. Through my own body (photo – performances), I reflect about national identity, the representation of woman in art history, the representations of woman and cats (witch trials, woman and cats where consider the representation of evil) in a patriarchal system.
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